The International Panel on Fissile Material (IPFM) has released satellite photos, confirming that Israel is carrying out concrete new construction work at the Dimona Nuclear Research Center located in the Negev desert.
According to the "Russia Today" website, the international team, a body that includes nuclear experts from 17 countries, published yesterday, Thursday, pictures taken by a satellite on the fourth of last January, which confirms that Israel is working to expand the Dimona site significantly.
The team indicated that new construction work is taking place in the immediate vicinity of the Dimona nuclear reactor and the reprocessing plant at the site.
The photos show that these works are being carried out with the participation of several construction mechanisms and are concentrated at the current stage on a large excavated area with a length of about 140 meters and a width of about 50 meters, and its goal is still mysterious.
The team suggested that this construction work began in late 2018 at the beginning of 2019 and is currently in full swing, and it was not previously monitored, because the last pictures of this Israeli nuclear site available in the "Google Earth" project date back to 2011.
The Dimona reactor was built in the 1950s, and its role in Israel´s secret nuclear program was first revealed in 1986 by the Israeli nuclear expert, Mordechai Vanunu, who was a former employee at this site and left Israel for Britain.
